Florida Keys Snapper fishing

[SportFishStaff]

Fishing with Capt John Oughton and his crew from J&A Charters, we fished on http://www.thatsrightcharters.com/ which winters in the keys. They also run http://www.prettyworkcharters.com/.
Once we made short work of the awesome King Mackerel bite
King Mackerel Non Stop

It was off for some snapper and bottom fishing for the tasty yellowtails that inhabit the patch reefs.

We put a great dinner together with a haul of yellowtails, a mutton snapper, 2 grouper released a beauty of a blue parrotfish and many grunts and other species to put a bend in the rod.

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[hubris 1]

Tim, What is that Blue fish? Love the yellow tail, great eating.

[gottaflylee]

Male, blue parrot fish I think Alex

Love fishing for Yellow tails. An local old timer in key west told me to chum with cracked yellow corn along with the fish chum, boy did it work good.

Great report pictures, Tim...

[SeaBiscuit]

Did y'all eat the parrotfish?
I think it's a wrasse, so it could be tasty?
Biscuit

[merry marlin]

Like fishing in an aquarium! About what depth were you in?
That close up of the parrot is incredible...
MM

[SportFishStaff]

Alex, It was a Blue Parrotfish, there were about 7 or 8 of them behind the boat. I was very surprised we caught it as they have a set of chompers on them and we were using very small hooks


Lee, Them yelowtails were damn good eating that's for sure. No cracked corn but we were using horse feed oats to mix in with the chum slurry

Biscuit, No we did not eat the parrotfish, no one even mentioned it actually so im not sure what the table fair would be on it. They were very pretty.

Jacque, It was definitely like a fish bowl. We had a big amberjack come up and hang around for a while also and there where always things darting around in the slick. We were pretty shallow. 45 to 50 feet of water.
Thanks for the kind words guys.

Guys this was also only a 4 hour fun trip, The variety and action you can experience with Capt John
http://www.thatsrightcharters.com/

http://www.prettyworkcharters.com/.
Is insane the amount of action you will encounter. This is a perfect place to have family fun vacation. Capt John runs packages and works with one of the best hotels in the keys. He offers everything from bottom fishing to chasing tarpon and bones on the flats to swordies in the deep and every kind of fishing you can imagine. This is a total fishing adventure and family vacation wrapped up in one.

Capt. John also fishes Ocean City Md in the summer for sharks, tuna and all pelagic species.